How to get an element outside of iframe with javascript or jQuery?

Question

I'm trying to get a element from outside of iframe with js or jQuery. I found something but it's not cross browser.

<div id=vi-desc-maincntr"">
    <div class="u-flL iti-act-num">123456789</div>
    <div id="desc_div">
        <iframe src="LOCATION">
    </div>
</div>

I need that number into a variable.

Answer 1

Same-origin policy:
You might want to check this. Two pages need to have the same origin.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Same-origin_policy

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If your child page is located at same domain as parent page, You can write a code like below in the child window :

 $('#test1', parent.document).html('<h1>clicked</h1>');

The second parameter provides the context in which to search the element matched by the first parameter. The Document is here:http://api.jquery.com/jQuery/#jQuery-selector-context

 jQuery( selector [, context ] )

Hope this helps.